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Call for abstracts: Topic on 3D Printed Soft Materials in ASME IMECE 2021 (virtual conference)

Submitted by Kai Yu on
conference
ASME IMECE
3D printing
soft material
additive manufacturing

Dear colleagues:

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the topic on 3D Printed Soft Materials at the 2021 ASME IMECE, which is to be held as a virtual conference online from November 1 to November 5, 2021. This year, we are more than happy to invite Dr. Cheng Sun from Northwestern University to give an invited talk.

 

Please refer to the attached file for the scope of our topic. To submit an abstract, please

1. Go to: https://event.asme.org/IMECE

Microscopic and Long-wave instabilities in soft fiber composites

Submitted by Nitesh Arora on
fiber composite
instabilities
patterns
soft material
Materials with Microstructure

Dear Colleagues,

Our paper on elastic instabilities in soft fiber composites recently got published in International Journal of Engineering Science. In this paper, we explore how the stiffening behavior of composites phases influences the development of instabilities and associated buckling patterns. To do that, we use non-Gaussian hyperleastic  model to define the constitutive behavior of phases. 

Mechanics of Mushroom as a material

Submitted by Mohammad Refat… on
research
foam
soft material

We recently characterized a unique material developed from root structure (Mycelium) of mushroom. Mycelium has a filamentous network structure with mechanics largely controlled by filament elasticity and branching, and network density. We report the morphological and mechanical characterization of mycelium. The monotonic mechanical behavior of the mycelium is non-linear both in tension and compression.

Fringe Instability in Constrained Soft Elastic Layers

Submitted by linst06 on
research
mechanical instability
soft material
adhesion

Soft elastic layers with top and bottom surfaces adhered to rigid bodies are abundant in biological organisms and engineering applications. As the rigid bodies are pulled apart, the stressed layer can exhibit various modes of mechanical instabilities. In cases where the layer’s thickness is much smaller than its length and width, the dominant modes that have been studied are the cavitation, interfacial and fingering instabilities. Here we report a new mode of instability which emerges if the thickness of the constrained elastic layer is comparable to or smaller than its width.

Ph.D. Positions in Mechanics of Soft Materials at Michigan State University

Submitted by Dargazany on
research
phd
position
mechanics
modeling
multi-scale
soft material

Our Group of High Performance Materials in Enviormental & Civil Engineering Department at Michigan State University has an openings for PhD positions to work on Multiscale Modeling of Soft Materials starting sSummer  or Fall 2015.

Bonding of Soft and Rigid Materials

Submitted by kvm7 on
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Computational Mechanics Forum
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Cohesive elements
ties
soft material

I am workingon a model in which i have a soft layer of material bonded between to rigidlayers of material via cohesive elements following a linear separation-tractionlaw based on a critical fracture energy value I determined from experimentaland numerical work. I have the interlayer and cohesive elements as one partwith a partitioned face and connected to the two adherends viasurface-to-surface ties. I have found that my model runs successfully only ifthe soft interlayer material is made very stiff.

Cohesive Elements and Soft Materials

Submitted by kvm7 on
research
Elastomers
Cohesive elements
ties
soft material

I am working on a model in which i have a soft layer of material bonded between to rigid layers of material via cohesive elements following a linear separation-traction law based on a critical fracture energy value I determined from experimental and numerical work. I have the interlayer and cohesive elements as one part with a partitioned face and connected to the two adherends via surface-to-surface ties. I have found that my model runs successfully only if the soft interlayer material is made very stiff.

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